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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Kabbalah Inspirations by Jeremy Rosen Publisher Comments Kabbalah, an ancient mystical movement that arose within Judaism, is one of the most beautiful and enigmatic of all the spiritual traditions. This book traces its most thought-provoking and imaginative themes, including creation myths; the tree of life... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Kabbalah Reader: A Sourcebook of Visionary Judaism by Edward Hoffman Publisher Comments This comprehensive and accessible entrée into the world of Kabbalah covers 1,600 years of Jewish mystical thought and features a variety of thinkers—from the renowned to the obscure—unavailable in any other volume. It’s a fresh... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar by Alan Morinis Publisher Comments Profound and practical Jewish teachings on discovering happiness, wisdom, and our highest potential amid the struggles of everyday life--a step-by-step path for inner growth that anyone can follow--now in paperback.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Wisdom of Maimonides: The Life and Writings of the Jewish Sage by Edward Hoffman Publisher Comments Here is an accessible introduction to the life and wisdom of the famous twelfth-century philosopher-physician Moses Maimonides, whose prolific writings on medical and religious issues, commentaries on Jewish texts, and writings on Jewish ethics and law... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Yosl Rakover Talks to God (Vintage International) by Zvi Kolitz Publisher Comments There are two stories here. One is the now legendary tale of a defiant Jew's refusal to abandon God, even in the face of the greatest suffering the world has known, a testament of faith that has taken on an unpredictable and fascinating life of its own... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Genesis: Translation and Commentary by Robert Alter Publisher Comments Genesis begins with the making of heaven and earth and all life, and ends with the image of a mummy--Joseph's--in a coffin. In between come many of the primal stories in Western culture: Adam and Eve's expulsion from the garden of Eden, Cain's murder of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene Publisher Comments At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast-but even greater were the changes those 50 sticks of dynamite... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Heart and the Fountain: An Anthology of Jewish Mystical Experiences by Joseph Dan Publisher Comments Joseph Dan is one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism. In this superb anthology, Dan not only presents illuminating excerpts from the most important mystical texts, but also delves into the very meaning of mysticism itself. Dan takes... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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King of the Jews Arnold Rothstein by Nick Tosches Publisher Comments So begins Nick Tosches's sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, which, in fact, is so much more: not only an elegy to old New York but an idiosyncratic history of the world as told in Nick Tosches's inimitable style. Known by many names — A. R... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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I and Thou by Martin Buber Publisher Comments Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since World War II considers Buber as... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bib (P.S.) by David Plotz Publisher Comments At a time when wars are fought over scriptural interpretation, when the influence of religion on American politics has never been greater, when many Americans still believe in the Bible’s literal truth, it has never been more important to get to... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance by Michael Goldfarb Publisher Comments The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europes Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today. Freed from their ghettos, Jews... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern) by Elisheva Baumgarten Publisher Comments This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Norman Podhoretz: A Biography by Thomas L Jeffers Publisher Comments This is the first biography of the Jewish-American intellectual Norman Podhoretz, longtime editor of the influential magazine Commentary. As both an editor and a writer, he spearheaded the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and after he broke ranks... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $25.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Ethical Writings of Maimonides by Moses Maimonides Publisher Comments Here are the most significant ethical writings of the 12th-century philosopher, physician, and master of rabbinical literature — translated from the original sources by noted Maimonides scholars. Includes the first English versions of "Eight... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi Publisher Comments While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was then forgotten, and has until now remained unknown to a wider... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem Publisher Comments The ?spellbinding? (The New York Times) true story of a Jewish boy who became the darling of the Nazis When a Nazi death squad massacred his mother and fellow villagers, five-year-old Alex Kurzem escaped, hiding in the freezing Russian forest until he... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews by Shlomo Aronson Publisher Comments This book offers a new analysis of the Holocaust as a multiple trap, its origins, and its final stages, in which rescue seemed to be possible. With the Holocaust developing like a sort of a doomsday machine set in motion from all sides, the Jews found... (read more) List Price $38.25 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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